Gord Martineau - professional sleazebag!

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mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

oh christ i'll never be able to watch CITY-TV again without thinking of these clips. gotta love jojo chintoh (sp?) nicking booze when 'on assignment'. nice work, boys.

Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 15:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey Rob, will you be able to listen to Roch Voisine again?

Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 15:27 (twenty-two years ago)

C'mon, nothing can break my love for THE ROCH. Gord-o gave it a good try, but he failed. What a wanker.

Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Do my eyes deceive me or does he really point to his groin and say "There's your news story, right there"?!

mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 15:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Your eyes do not deceive.

I don't really know what's going on in the third clip, other than someone falling over. Was he sleeping?

Jonathan (Jonathan), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

It's Irshad Manji fainting on set. That one was a little out of bounds, I thought. You don't need to resort to outtakes to show her making an ass of herself.

mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Do my eyes deceive me or does he really point to his groin and say "There's your news story, right there"?!

I thought he was holding up his script as if it were a prosthetic dong, but same thing really.

Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 19:17 (twenty-two years ago)

That, amazingly enough, was a different time.

mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)

News anchors in being obsessed with their groin shocker?

ps. Irshad rocks.

Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 19:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Sean, say it ain't so!

mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 19:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Admittedly my experience with seeing Irshad on-air has been limited, but the stuff I've seen has been pretty cool. Why the dislike?

Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

these clips are the best thing i've seen all year. i can't wait untill i bump into gord again.

also, mark, damn you to hell for beating at starting a thread on this.

dyson (dyson), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 19:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Clips of Toronto newscaster making rude remarks off-air circulate on Internet
OTTAWA (CP) — A well-known newscaster in the Toronto market was captured making a rude gesture and referring to a Canadian singer as a “homo” in a series of video clips currently circulating on the Internet.
The recordings are undated outtakes from promotional items that veteran Citytv news anchor Gord Martineau recorded with co-anchor Anne Mroczkowski in the studio to advertise the CityPulse at Six evening newscast, the Ottawa Citizen reported.
The clips show Martineau mocking an upcoming news item about children with cancer and, in another, referring to a Canadian singer as a “homo.”
When Mroczkowski defends an item on a pancreas transplant as an interesting medical story, Martineau points toward his groin and says, “This is interesting. That is not.”
The Citizen said Citytv vice-president Stephen Hurlbut apologized for what he said showed a lapse into a “bad sense of humour” that sometimes occurs in newsrooms. But he said there would be no disciplinary action required.
“That would be absurd.”
Martineau was “embarrassed” that his broadcasting career might be besmirched because “he got crazy one day,” Hurlbut said. Hurlbut says the clips are taken out of context.
The offensive segments were never aired. Hurlbut said he did not know how the clips ended up on the Internet.

His remarks are reminiscent of the imbroglio involving former CTV Newsnet anchor Avery Haines, who in 2000 lost her job for making insensitive comments about people with disabilities.
Haines believed she was off-air when she said joked that her own stuttering showed “equal opportunity” for the disabled.
She was fired by CTV and was later hired by Citytv. She now works for another network.
(Ottawa Citizen)

Huck Everlasting (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 20:11 (twenty-two years ago)

funny, this thread linking to the bloopers existed this morning! must've been a crazy 'technical glitch':

http://community.citytv.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=17;t=007021

mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

The Frank clips are gone! Brutal. Can we find them anywhere else and perhaps unindex this thread before "the lawyers" try to destroy the evidence?

Kim (Kim), Thursday, 29 January 2004 02:08 (twenty-two years ago)

i've saved 'em on my hd. if you really want them i can burn them onto cd for ya.

dyson (dyson), Thursday, 29 January 2004 02:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually I just found a mirror site linked from the Frank forums, but thanks. Looks like this story even made the National Post and the Ottawa Citizen today. Way to go CityTV.

Kim (Kim), Thursday, 29 January 2004 03:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Did you see yesterday's Nat'l Post editorial on this?
I think it's pretty fucking smug for print j'lists to gloat over this.

Huck Me Gently (Horace Mann), Thursday, 29 January 2004 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, those people NEVER drink.

Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 30 January 2004 02:26 (twenty-two years ago)


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